Sudan has become the third Arab country to agree to normalize relations with Israel. The Palestinians are most unhappy: “Palestinians condemn ‘shameful’ Israel-Sudan accord,” by Khaled Abu Toameh and Celia Jean, Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2020: The Palestinian Authority said on Friday that it “condemns and rejects” the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel. […]
Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Muslim nations will never accept the humiliation of compromising with the Zionist regime’
While Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan are normalizing relations with Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran remains determined to obliterate Israel, as the Palestinian Arabs and their allies have vowed to do since the birth of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Although the Palestinians claim to want a “two-state” solution, a […]
Trump announces that Sudan and Israel have agreed to normalization of relations
#BREAKING: President @realDonaldTrump has announced that Sudan and Israel have agreed to the normalization of relations— another major step toward building peace in the Middle East with another nation joining the Abraham Accords 🇸🇩 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 — Judd Deere (@JuddPDeere45) October 23, 2020 As Hugh Fitzgerald discussed here yesterday, Sudan has become the latest majority-Muslim […]
Sudan Will Be Next to Normalize Relations with Israel
Sudan will soon be taken off the American list of state sponsors of terrorism. It has first to agree to pay $335 million dollars to the families of victims of Sudan-sponsored terrorism. And the next step, which is not being made explicit but that everyone understands is coming, will be for Sudan to establish diplomatic […]
Saeb Erekat Rushed to Hadassah Hospital UPDATE: Erekat is dead
UPDATE: Erekat has reportedly died. ———- The hypocrisy of the Palestinian Arabs knows no bounds. They accuse Israelis of every possible atrocity – raping, mutilating, murdering innocent Arabs, as well as “harvesting the organs” of “Palestinian martyrs” that are to be transplanted into Israelis. The Israelis are even accused of conducing unspecified “medical experiments” on […]
A Few Questions for Actor and Middle East Expert Mark Ruffalo
About Mark Ruffalo, and why he should be asked these questions, see here and here. 1. Are you aware that there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the Land of Israel for 3500 years? Are you aware that the Muslim Arabs arrived only in the 7th century? 2. Are you aware that when the […]
Mark Ruffalo Deplores the ‘Racist Warmongers’ of Israel
Mark Ruffalo, actor and expert extraordinaire on the Arab-Israel conflict, doesn’t much care for Israel. He’s read online so much about its deplorable treatment of the Palestinians. Why shouldn’t he believe all these stories of Israeli “brutality”? Could so many Palestinians be lying? Of course they could. Muhammad says in a famous hadith that “war […]
Sudan: Sovereignty Council to normalize ties with Israel
In return for getting off the terror list. The art of the deal. “Sudanese Sovereignty Council to normalize ties with Israel: source to i24NEWS,” i24NEWS, October 15, 2020: Sudan said to face ultimatum from US demanding normalization in exchange for removal from terror support list The Sudanese Sovereignty Council decided to go ahead with normalizing […]
Mark Ruffalo, Middle East Expert, Denounces Israel
Mark Ruffalo, an American actor, joins such profound experts on the Arab-Israeli conflict from the world of entertainment as musician Roger Waters and actress Vanessa Redgrave in his grasp of the matter, which has led to his deep antipathy toward Israel. His story is here: “Mark Ruffalo talks Palestinian issues, calls Israel a ‘kind of […]
PA mufti: Jihad against ‘thieving Jews’ is ‘a personal religious commandment for everyone who is capable of it’
As I explain in detail in The Palestinian Delusion, the “Palestinian” conflict with Israel is based on Islamic imperatives, the one aspect of the conflict that all mainstream analysts discount or ignore altogether. Accordingly, it is no surprise at all that the “Palestinians” would be trying to marshal opposition to the peace deals, which are […]
A Terrible Idea: Selling F-35s to Qatar
The F-35 is an American Stealth fighter jet, considered to be top of the line, that has been sold only to close allies, including Israel. The United Arab Emirates has long desired to buy some F-35s; it began to express this desire six years ago, and now it looks as though the sale will at […]
Archeological Finds In Israel Undermine the ‘Palestinian’ Narrative
As is well-known, Palestinian leaders like to backdate – using their vivid oriental imaginations – the presence of the “Palestinian people” in “Palestine.” Mahmoud Abbas has frequently declared that the Palestinians are direct descendants of the Canaanites, who lived in the Middle East some 4000 years ago. He has made even more extravagant claims recently […]
Lebanon Agrees to Talk with Israel on Maritime Borders
For the last decade, Israel has been discovering huge undersea deposits of natural gas in the Tamar and Leviathan fields under the Mediterranean, and is now producing that gas both for its own use and for sale to Egypt and Jordan. Lebanon, meanwhile, has stood on the sidelines, needing to demarcate its maritime border with […]
Israel’s Defense Minister: Turkey and Iran are ‘denying promotion of peace and supporting regional aggression’
Turkey has become an increasing menace and bully in the region. On the heels of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declaring the absurdity that “Jerusalem has been our city for thousands of years,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has stated accurately that Turkey and Iran are “denying promotion of peace and supporting regional aggression.” Both […]
Merkel and Her Alleged ‘Support’ For Israel’s Security
Chancellor Merkel likes to tell the world how important Israel’s security is to Germany. A week before the German federal elections in 2013, she ringingly declared that Israel’s security is part of Germany’s national ethos. In an interview for the September 13, 2013 edition of the Jewish Voice from Germany, Merkel – when asked about […]
An October Surprise?
Here’s an idea for an October Surprise that could transform the political landscape. It has nothing to do with the announcement of a coronavirus vaccine. Nor with Black Lives Matter. Nor with defunding the police. Nor with once-in-a-century wildfires and hurricanes that, in their intensity, happened to be just like those wildfires and hurricanes we’ve […]
Erdogan: ‘Jerusalem Has Been Our City For Thousands of Years’
Erdogan addressed the opening of the Turkish Parliament on October 1 with a ringing declaration that “Jerusalem Has Been Our City For Thousands of Years.” The “our” in “our city” seemed to refer now to the Turks, and now to the “Palestinian people.” The story is here. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday implied […]
Video: Netanyahu tells UN Hizballah is storing missiles in secret depot in residential neighborhood in Beirut
Hizballah does not operate in Lebanon alone. Following the Beirut explosion in August, the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) discussed the activities of Hizballah in various Western locations HERE. “Netanyahu Reveals ‘Secret Hezbollah Missile Depot’ in Beirut Residential Area,” Haaretz, September 29, 2020: Hezbollah is storing missiles in a secret depot at a residential neighborhood […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backs Out of Speaking at a Memorial Service for Yitzhak Rabin
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first accepted, and then reconsidered, and then turned down, an invitation to attend a memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who was killed by a far-right Israeli incensed at Rabin for being, in his view, much too accommodating to the demands of the Palestinians. The story of her change of […]
International Union of Muslim Scholars top dog: peace deals with Israel are attempt to ‘uproot Islam’
As I explain in detail in The Palestinian Delusion, the “Palestinian” conflict with Israel is based on Islamic imperatives, the one aspect of the conflict that all mainstream analysts discount or ignore altogether. Accordingly, it is no surprise at all that the “Palestinians” and their allies, such as Ali al-Qaradaghi, would try to marshal opposition […]